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Former student charged In cyber attack

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Dissent

Fox47 reports: An attack on Ingham Intermediate School District’s online network and the person police say is responsible was one of its own students. The incident happened in February 2017. On Wednesday FOX 47’s Alani Letang learned more on that student, who now faces criminal charges after shutting down the district’s internet servers. Police say…

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TX: Victoria ISD notifies employees of breach involving their personal information

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Dissent

Let’s remember that k-12 school districts often maintain medical information on their employees, as this notification from Victoria Independent School District in Texas reminds us. In this case, some employee email accounts were inappropriately accessed between July and October 2017. Some of the emails in those accounts contained employees’ personal information, including “name, address, Social…

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MedWatch LLC notifies members whose protected health information was exposed on the internet

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Dissent

Florida-headquartered MedWatch, LLC is a care management company, providing risk management solutions to the self-funded health plan market.  On or about April 13, they started notifying their clients’ health plan members after learning that a vendor misconfiguration error had exposed protected health information between October 20, 2017 and December 15, 2017. MedWatch did not name…

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Polk County Health Services notifies mental health patients of breach that began in 2014

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Dissent

Polk County Health Services, Inc., in Iowa recently started notifying 1,071 patients seen at the Crisis Observation Center in Des Moines, Iowa between June 1, 2014 and January 11, 2018. According to a statement issued on April 13,  Polk County Health Services, Inc. “accidentally and unknowingly disseminated” personal and protected health information for patients seen during that…

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NC: Healthcare employee gave patient information to fraud suspects, police say

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Dissent

WSOC reports: Patients’ Social Security numbers, dates of birth and names were all handed over to fraud suspects by a Carolina Digestive Health Associates employee. In their search warrant, police said she admitted to sharing around 100 people’s personal information to fraud suspects. She also agreed to let detectives check her phone, and the warrant…

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Ex-Berkeley Medical Center employee to pay more than $22K in restitution in patient-ID theft

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Dissent

Matthew Umstead reports: A former Berkeley Medical Center employee was ordered Monday by a federal judge to pay more than $22,000 in restitution stemming from allegations that she obtained hospital patients’ information to open credit card and other financial accounts. Angela Dawn Roberts, aka Angela Dawn Lee, 42, of Stephenson, Va., who pleaded guilty in…

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